The Difference Between Culture and State
Jay W. Richards
April 4, 2012
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Series Discovery Institute Episode 4
Guest Jay W. Richards
Duration 10:47 Download Audio File (9.9M) What’s the difference between culture and state? Is culture more important than the state?Dr. Jay Richards argues that our culture is built on the great western tradition and that culture precedes politics and therefore is more important, but we must remember that culture can be dictated by politics both good and bad.
Photo by Ashlee Best, © Discovery Institute (CC BY-SA 4.0) Senior Fellow at Discovery, Director of Devos Center at Heritage FoundationJay W. Richards, Ph.D., is the Director of the DeVos Center and William E. Simon Senior Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, and a Senior Fellow at Discovery Institute. Richards is author or editor of more than a dozen books, including the New York Times bestsellers Infiltrated (2013) and Indivisible (2012); The Human Advantage ; Money, Greed, and God , winner of a 2010 Templeton Enterprise Award; The Hobbit Party with Jonathan Witt; The Privileged Planet with Guillermo Gonzalez, coming out in a second edition in 2024; The Price of Panic: How the Tyranny of Experts Turned a Pandemic Into a Catastrophe with Douglas Axe and William Briggs; and Eat, Fast, Feast . His most recent book, with James Robison, is Fight the Good Fight: How an Alliance of Faith and Reason Can Win the Culture War .
